[Greenwich Village by Anna Alice Chapin]@TWC D-Link bookGreenwich Village CHAPTER VIII 13/31
There are many others--enough to fill a book all by themselves.
There are the Villagers who hammer brass, and those who carve wood; who make exquisite lace, who make furniture of quaint and original design.
There are the designers and decorators, whose brains are full of graceful images and whose fingers are quick and facile to carry them out.
There are, in fact, numbers on numbers of enthusiastic young people--they are nearly all of them young--who from sunrise to sunset spend their lives in adding to the sum of beauty that there is on earth. The making of box furniture, for instance, sounds commonplace enough, but it is really fascinating.
There are places in the Village,--notably one on Greenwich Avenue,--where these clever craftsmen make wonderful things from cubic forms of wood, from boxes and sticks and laths and blocks. They can make anything from a desk to a tall candlestick, and, softly coloured, the square, wooden objects make a highly decorative effect.
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